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Show V MERIT SEMIFINALISTS James Wadley and Steve Harve are semifinalists in National Merit Scholarship winners. Two Students Are Named as Semifinalists in Merit Program ceptionally able group of finalists. Semifinalists who attain finalist status will compete for at least 1,000 National Merit $1,000 Scholarships. Each finalist will compete with all other finalists in a particular state for these scholarships that are allocated on a state representational basis Finalist who meet the final if inn Unnc act n Kl ic-Vm Kir Approximately 15,000 students have been named semifinalists in the 1977 National Merit Scholarship Program. These academically talented students will have an opportunity to continue in the competition for about 3,850 Merit Scholarships to be awarded next spring. Named semifinalists from the Pleasant Grove High School are Steven Harvey, son of James D. and Barbara Harvey and James Wadley, son of Alexander and Nelda Wadley. To advance to finalist, standing semifinalists must meet requirements that include requirements that include being fully endorsed and recommended for scholarship consideration by their secondary secon-dary school principals, presenting school records that substantiate high academic standing, and confirming their high qualifying test scores with equivalent scores on a second examination. Over 90 percent of the semifinalists are expected ex-pected to qualify as finalists and to receive cretificates of merit next February. All winners of merit scholarships will be chosen from the ex- grantors will also be considered for about 2,850 four -year Merit Scholarships to be offered in 1977. About 1,350 of these awards will be supported by grants to the Merit Program from corporations, foundations, foun-dations, unions and professional associations; some 1,500 four-year Merit Scholarships will be sponsored by U.S. colleges and universities. univer-sities. The 1977 competition is the 22nd conducted by NMSC. In the 21 annual Merit Programs between 1956 and 1976, over 45,800 students have won merit scholarships valued at more than $124 million. NMSC will release the names of merit scholarship winners in 1977 in three announcements, April 6, April 20 and April 27. |